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While more than 30 states are considering passing legislation to block government health care from being forced on their states, Virginia has become the first state to get such a bill to the governor’s office. On an 80-17 vote, the Virginia legislature has sent their bill to the governor, who is expected to sign it into law. Read more »

Lemmon, South Dakota has scheduled their first Tea Party event. The event will be at 1:00 pm on Saturday, May 1, featuring a special speaker on the Constitution who will hold a Q & A session, and all South Dakota gubernatorial candidates have been invited; two have accepted the invitation so far. Tell your friends that the Tea Party movement is coming to Lemmon, South Dakota! Read more »

The best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Global Warming in Historical Perspective; Obama and NOAA may soon abolish recreational fishing; State’s Rights Can Live Again; Climate Confusion at the National Association of Evangelicals; Tea Party Danger: Mediocrity; Public Education: The Indoctrination Factory; Open wide: Dems plan to ram it down whole; and more! Read more »

A Christian legal group filed an appeal this week to fight a ban against a church meeting in homes. With only seven members, Oasis of Truth Church was ordered to stop holding all activities, including Bible studies, leadership meetings and fellowship activities, in Pastor Joe Sutherland’s home in Gilbert, Ariz. Alliance Defense Fund attorneys contend in the appeal that was filed Wednesday that banning religious meetings of any size or frequency in a home is unprecedented and unconstitutional. Read more »

A legal group on Thursday filed a petition requesting the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case of a kindergarten student’s poster that was censored by a school because it contained the image of Jesus. When Antonio was in kindergarten, he drew a poster with several religious figures with the words, “The only way to save the world” for an art project about the environment. Read more »

The South Dakota Legislature recently passed SB 89 which declares “exempt from federal regulation any firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured and retained in South Dakota.” Now, a little more than a week later, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds has signed the bill into law. Read more »

Could we have imagined 50 years ago that marriage would be under all-out assault, and that we would be in a pitched battle to defend an institution so ancient, so fundamental, and so obvious? Would we have imagined it even 30 years ago? Yet that is where we find ourselves…but defenders of marriage are not without powerful allies. Read more »

In America we have since the birth of our country recognized that we are endowed with certain inalienable rights from our Creator. We do not have a right, however, to diminish the rights of another person. In other words, we do not have the right to force another person to surrender their property or services to give to us. Read more »

The use and abuse of the Antiquities Act, legislation which dates back to the time of Teddy Roosevelt, is nothing new. Little consideration seems to be given to how these federal land grabs will affect property rights, loss of state revenue, job creation and local economies.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear Snyder v. Phelps, a case dealing with anti-gay protests at the funerals of American soldiers, is stirring up debate over whether the privacy rights of grieving families trumps the free speech rights of demonstrators. Read more »

There is a loop hole that the Federal Courts have been using for years. Millions of us over the years have wondered, “How can the government do that?” or “That’s not in the Constitution, is it?” No,it is not!! So how? Answer: ” IMPLIED POWERS OF THE CONSTITUTION” Read more »

Common threads of the tea party platform among all the groups are the concepts of fiscal responsibility, limited government, lower taxation, and national sovereignty, and these are quite important. But, when it comes to “social issues” like abortion and homosexual “rights,” some tea party leaders tend to shy away. Read more »

“Nearly every important office in Washington is occupied by someone with an aggressive dislike for our heritage, our freedom, our history, and our Constitution.””Nearly every important office in Washington is occupied by someone with an aggressive dislike for our heritage, our freedom, our history, and our Constitution.” – Dick Armey Read more »

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) and Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) have introduced a constitutional amendment to limit the spending of the federal government. The legislation would limit spending to 1/5 of GDP, something that would knock 23% off President Obama’s proposed budget for 2010. Read more »

The American Community Survey, a part of the census process, is a 28-page intrusive questionnaire that demands to know about a person’s job, income, physical and emotional health, family status, place of residence and intimate personal and private habits. Americans who value their freedom and oppose intrusive government are already beginning to take a stand against this offensive probe in this census year. Read more »

Get ready for the dodgeball playoffs during the congressional spring recess coming up on March 29. Word is out that liberals in congress will either try to pass unconstitutional government health care before the spring recess begins on March 29, or will try to avoid town hall meetings back home. Read more »

Wouldn’t it be nice if President Barack Obama would throw the American people a curve-ball and nominate someone for something, and that nominee would be a fine, upstanding person who loves America, the American way of life, our founding principles and our Constitution? Keep dreaming. President Obama’s nominee for judge of the 9th Circus (Circuit) Court of Appeals is nothing but another member of Obama’s “Dream Team” to tear down this great nation. Read more »

A bill that declares “exempt from federal regulation any firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured and retained in South Dakota” passed in the South Dakota House of Representatives today. SB 89 was approved by a 49-19 vote. The bill had already passed the state Senate on Feb. 18 with a 29-4 vote. Read more »

Andy Stern, an Obama appointee to the Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, is an unabashed socialist and promoter of global government over U.S. sovereignty. As you’ll hear in this video below, Stern believes there has simply been too much freedom going on our there. Government needs to meddle more in the affairs of private companies–spoken like a true bureaucrat. He (like his boss) is also an open supporter of Marxist wealth redistribution. Read more »

The Sam Adams Alliance has done a study of the Tea Party movement. The study is called “The Early Adopters” and it examines why people got involved with the Tea Party movement, what they seek to accomplish, and some interesting dynamics about the people and politics of the phenomenon. Read more »

As Americans face the figurative and literal bankruptcy of socialist programs in our government, the time has come to rally behind real leadership–leadership that can move us out of the land of bondage to government and back into the promised land of freedom that America has traditionally been. And there is such a plan, if Americans are brave enough to reach out and demand their freedom back. Read more »